Newly announced Nintendo Direct looks at 2012 and early 2013
games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS

12/04/2012

[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]

4
th December 2012 – Nintendo of Europe has
announced a new edition of
Nintendo Direct for tomorrow,
5
th December, set to focus on games coming to
Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in the remainder of 2012 and the first
months of 2013.

The newly announced Nintendo Direct presentation will be
streamed from the
Nintendo Direct website on 5
th December from 5pm GMT and will be hosted by
Nintendo of Europe President Satoru Shibata.

Nintendo 3DS offers Parental Controls so that parents can
control the level of 3D their children can view on the Nintendo 3DS
as well as the content they can access. Nintendo 3DS also features
a 3D depth slider which lets players turn off or adjust the level
of 3D they want on the 3D Screen, two built-in screens for
different functionality, a Circle Pad which provides a full 360
degrees of direction, a built-in motion sensor and gyro sensor. It
is equipped with three cameras (two of which are facing outwards to
allow the taking of 3D pictures), houses a 2GB SD Memory Card and
is compatible with AR Cards which come packaged with Nintendo 3DS.
Nintendo 3DS is also backwards compatible with all existing
Nintendo DS games, which can be played in 2D on your Nintendo 3DS
system.

About Nintendo

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures
and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console,
Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable
systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment
System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4 billion video games
and more than 637 million hardware units globally, including the
current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo
DSi™ and Nintendo DSi™ XL, as well as the Game
Boy™, Game Boy Advance™, Super NES™,
Nintendo® 64 and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also
created industry icons that have become well-known, household names
such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™,
Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned
subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was
established in 1990 and serves as headquarters for Nintendo's
operations in Europe.